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Quantitative investigation of the transition process in Taylor-Couette flow

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The transition process from circular Couette flow to Taylor vortex flow regime was experimentally investigated by measuring the instantaneous velocity vector fields at the annular gap flow region between two concentric cylinders. The proper orthogonal decomposition method, vorticity calculation, and frequency analysis were applied in order to analyze the instantaneous velocity fields to identify the flow characteristics during the transition process. From the results, the kinetic energy and corresponding reconstructed velocity fields were able to detect the onset of the transition process and the alternation of the flow structure. The intermittency and oscillation of the vortex flows during the transition process were also revealed from the analysis of the instantaneous velocity fields. The results can be a measure of identifying the critical Reynolds number of the Taylor-Couette flow from a velocity measurement method.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

    Xin Cheng Tu & Hyoung-Bum Kim

  2. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

    Dong Liu

  3. Research Center for Aircraft Parts Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

    Hyoung-Bum Kim

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Xin Cheng Tu received his master’s degree at the Graduate School of Energy and Power Engineering in 2009 from Jiangsu University in China and is now a Ph.D candidate at Gyeongsang National University in Korea. His research interest is in flow measurement using optical and ultrasound method.

Dong Liu received his Ph.D in fluid machinery and engineering from Jiangsu University in 2008. He worked as senior researcher at Gyeongsang National University from 2008 to 2010. Now he is an associate professor in Jiangsu University. His research interests are in flow instability of Taylor-Couette flow and flow measurement in fluid machinery.

Hyoung-Bum Kim received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from POSTECH in 2000. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Gyeongsang National University as an assistant professor in 2004. His research interests are in flow measurement and control.

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Tu, X.C., Liu, D. & Kim, HB. Quantitative investigation of the transition process in Taylor-Couette flow. J Mech Sci Technol 27, 407–412 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-012-1253-2

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